The following remarks were given at the Northwest Journalist of Color Scholarship Reception on Thursday June 2nd at KIRO TV.

In addressing you today, as a fellow journalist of color, I was able to settle on the fact that the most important message I can relay to you is not how critical journalism is to you, but how critical all of you are to journalism as well as our society. How powerful you are in this new media landscape where the tried and true is daily being replaced by the new and innovative. Where there are no longer any exclusive gatekeepers to information, just trusted sources of it. Continue reading Essay: To Young Journalists of Color→

(This article was originally published by the Seattle Times and has been reprinted with permission)

When I first started traveling to poor countries as a young journalist, I was most shocked by the slums. Tarp cities and shantytowns in Asia, Africa and Latin America, often butted up against wealthy neighborhoods and sleek high-rises, stood out as symbols of the distance between the United States and the “Developing World.” Continue reading Lost Boys of Sudan Reconnect in Seattle’s Jungle→